Sooo Disturbing this information! I can imagine how distressing after just visiting, ugh! Your pictures are so wonderful, it’s important for me to see and feel & share the beauty! Thank you for sharing the information & link! Love to yous 💗🦋🐈⬛
Your essay stayed with me. Not just the places—those sky islands, blooming alpine trails, the quiet arcs of migrating wings—but the way you carried them. You didn’t just pass through. You witnessed. You loved. You named.
And I read all of it knowing this won’t be stopped. That ship sailed with T2.0’s election. What’s underway now is extraction on a scale designed to erase what cannot be replaced. These lands will be sold. The question now is how much remains when the selling ends.
I’ve seen this playbook before—our Tafelsilber gone, our commons stripped, the price passed to those who already carry more than enough. And still, I believe in telling the truth of what’s being taken. I believe in memory as resistance.
You’ve done that here—offered the names, the birds, the blooms, the coordinates of care. I’m reading from across the ocean, and I’m with you. Because even when we can’t hold the line, we can hold each other. And we can hold the stories that make clear what was sacred.
May enough rise to end this regime before even more is lost.
Thanks for reading and supporting! Like you, I fear that much will be lost that is irreplaceable, but I stubbornly/vainly/daftly cling to examples of hope. I gain a lot of inspiration reading environmental journalism from the 1970's and 80's, for example (John McPhee, Edward Abbey, etc) and every so often I stumble on a passage describing the rarity of a Bald Eagle or a Peregrine Falcon... implied in every case is the population loss that those species suffered through the mid-twentieth century due to DDT. Thankfully, in part because Rachel Carson's wrote about this so poignantly in Silent Spring and her writing reached such a wide audience, DDT fell out of favor and was eventually banned in much of the world. Today, spotting these gorgeous raptors across North America is much more commonplace-- populations have rebounded, despite the darkest fears of the time. This gives me a jolt of very necessary hope to soften the fear and grief that taints our passage through this gauntlet we're facing. It might be bleak, but not totally hopeless. I like your phrase "memory as resistance," and I also like "seeing is a form of caring," which I have heard from several artists I've turned to recently. Let's keep looking at the world and sharing what we see! I believe that our capitalist culture has successfully installed a lot of distractions and barriers between us and the outdoors, but in the end all we have to do is step outside to see it again.
Thanks, Rachel & Tyler, for informing us about this aspect of the proposed bill. I have written to Susan Collins & Angus King and I pray something can be done.
I know! So many things! It seems I am most capable of focusing on this theme of the environment and shout about it loudest. Hopefully, I can just rally a bit in tandem with those who are rallying to defend the other horrible social themes.
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Sooo Disturbing this information! I can imagine how distressing after just visiting, ugh! Your pictures are so wonderful, it’s important for me to see and feel & share the beauty! Thank you for sharing the information & link! Love to yous 💗🦋🐈⬛
Love you, Shanna!
Rachel and Tyler,
Your essay stayed with me. Not just the places—those sky islands, blooming alpine trails, the quiet arcs of migrating wings—but the way you carried them. You didn’t just pass through. You witnessed. You loved. You named.
And I read all of it knowing this won’t be stopped. That ship sailed with T2.0’s election. What’s underway now is extraction on a scale designed to erase what cannot be replaced. These lands will be sold. The question now is how much remains when the selling ends.
I’ve seen this playbook before—our Tafelsilber gone, our commons stripped, the price passed to those who already carry more than enough. And still, I believe in telling the truth of what’s being taken. I believe in memory as resistance.
You’ve done that here—offered the names, the birds, the blooms, the coordinates of care. I’m reading from across the ocean, and I’m with you. Because even when we can’t hold the line, we can hold each other. And we can hold the stories that make clear what was sacred.
May enough rise to end this regime before even more is lost.
Thanks for reading and supporting! Like you, I fear that much will be lost that is irreplaceable, but I stubbornly/vainly/daftly cling to examples of hope. I gain a lot of inspiration reading environmental journalism from the 1970's and 80's, for example (John McPhee, Edward Abbey, etc) and every so often I stumble on a passage describing the rarity of a Bald Eagle or a Peregrine Falcon... implied in every case is the population loss that those species suffered through the mid-twentieth century due to DDT. Thankfully, in part because Rachel Carson's wrote about this so poignantly in Silent Spring and her writing reached such a wide audience, DDT fell out of favor and was eventually banned in much of the world. Today, spotting these gorgeous raptors across North America is much more commonplace-- populations have rebounded, despite the darkest fears of the time. This gives me a jolt of very necessary hope to soften the fear and grief that taints our passage through this gauntlet we're facing. It might be bleak, but not totally hopeless. I like your phrase "memory as resistance," and I also like "seeing is a form of caring," which I have heard from several artists I've turned to recently. Let's keep looking at the world and sharing what we see! I believe that our capitalist culture has successfully installed a lot of distractions and barriers between us and the outdoors, but in the end all we have to do is step outside to see it again.
Thank you, my friends. I've shared it here and have submitted the form and will be calling all week.
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Thank you for this invaluable information The preservation areas are so very important and you guys are the best. Love you.
Thanks, Rachel & Tyler, for informing us about this aspect of the proposed bill. I have written to Susan Collins & Angus King and I pray something can be done.
Thanks, Margaret. Hoping and praying over here, too!
Thank you for highlighting! This, and the massive cuts to Medicaid and school lunch programs in favor of tax cuts for the rich are all so terrible!!
I know! So many things! It seems I am most capable of focusing on this theme of the environment and shout about it loudest. Hopefully, I can just rally a bit in tandem with those who are rallying to defend the other horrible social themes.